William Shakespeare has recently been rumoured to have written his play ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ in a house in Church Street.
There is no historical evidence to support this claim!
If Shakespeare wrote the play anywhere in Windsor it would have been in the Garter Inn, now the Harte & Garter. In the 16th Century there were in fact 2 inns side by side – the Garter and the White Hart. Shakespeare makes the Garter Inn one of the settings for the play with the Host of the Garter one of his characters.
Falstaff Window
On the inside staircase of the hotel there is a Victorian stained glass window with pictures of Falstaff and other characters from the Merry Wives.
By Dennis Blandford
Falstaff, one of his principal characters in the play ends up being thrown in a muddy ditch close to the Thames in Datchet Mead. Shakespeare must have known that the ditch carried away all of the town’s rubbish.
- Windsor Fun Facts History and Legend is a book by Windsor resident Caroline Wagstaff
Caroline Wagstaff
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there is historical evidence
see my site,quotes from three history books!
Do historians lie
http://www.windsorsoup.co.uk/history/dliz.html
Actually the Garter inn was next door to the now Harte and Garter. It is now a bank.
It burnt down.
(The bank was filmed in No Sex Please were British…. want to get a festival of old films made in Windsor.)
And my name is Arthur Brownwindsor. with an RRRRRRRR.
I am on Google
Bet you isn’t
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